Planet Coaster 2: General Discussion

[BarryZola]

Yes, the RAM debacle stopped me from building a new AM5 Ryzen system. Ironically, if I hadn't waited for Black Friday to try to save an extra few quid I could have bought what I wanted at a price I was happy with a month earlier. However, when RAM prices doubled in price because of this Ai nonsense I refused to pay. Upgraded my AM4 system instead with a GTX 5070 and a Ryzen 7 5700X and finished building yesterday. Already had 32gb DDR4 RAM so that will suffice. Should be good for my needs for a few more years. Screw Ai.

 

[DistortAMG]

Yes, the RAM debacle stopped me from building a new AM5 Ryzen system. Ironically, if I hadn't waited for Black Friday to try to save an extra few quid I could have bought what I wanted at a price I was happy with a month earlier. However, when RAM prices doubled in price because of this Ai nonsense I refused to pay. Upgraded my AM4 system instead with a GTX 5070 and a Ryzen 7 5700X and finished building yesterday. Already had 32gb DDR4 RAM so that will suffice. Should be good for my needs for a few more years. Screw Ai.

Thats a very solid system. I was running the 5700x with a 3070 and it was solid. It is about as fast as you can go on the AM4 platform. You can go faster with the 3d cache chips, but the price to performance is way off compared to a 5700x.

If gaming is your thing, Xbox Series and PS5 are built around AMDs 2nd gen Zen CPUs, so Ryzen 3000 series, (Ryzen 2000 series was classed as gen 1.5), because you are running the Ryzen 3rd generation with the 5000 series (they missed 4000 series entirely, confusing I know) it basically means you will have no problems running any modern games from the CPU side for a while to come, especially when paired with a beasty RTX 5070. As most games target the performance envelopes of the machines with the general biggest market share, this being for most games, the consoles.

Planet Coaster 2, which is already VERY well optimised, will sing on that system, especially at higher resolutions.

This talk makes me wanna go buy some parts and re build a system.

I still have the absolute rock solid, tier 1 Superflower Leadex III 850w power supply with perhaps 7 years left on the warranty, so that is one part I would not need to buy if I decide to build a new PC2 system. Decisions, decisions. Probably no chance now with RAM prices though.

Well my hopes and dreams of playing Planet Coaster 2 this weekend we're smashed when I realised that it doesn't come onto PS Plus until the 16th. Not to worry, for the first time in years, I have three working days of the year left this week, then I am finished. So, plenty of Planet Coaster 2 time coming up. I am slightly excited as I have been off it for months.

 

[Matt N]

My system is over 4 years old, and Planet Coaster 2 plays well on that, so I’d certainly call it well optimised!

My PC itself excluding peripherals cost £1,350 in summer 2021, my processor is an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X, my graphics card is an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 with 12GB VRAM and I have 16GB RAM. At the time, it was probably about the best system I could have bought without spending silly money!

 

[BarryZola]

Thats a very solid system. I was running the 5700x with a 3070 and it was solid. It is about as fast as you can go on the AM4 platform. You can go faster with the 3d cache chips, but the price to performance is way off compared to a 5700x.

If gaming is your thing, Xbox Series and PS5 are built around AMDs 2nd gen Zen CPUs, so Ryzen 3000 series, (Ryzen 2000 series was classed as gen 1.5), because you are running the Ryzen 3rd generation with the 5000 series (they missed 4000 series entirely, confusing I know) it basically means you will have no problems running any modern games from the CPU side for a while to come, especially when paired with a beasty RTX 5070. As most games target the performance envelopes of the machines with the general biggest market share, this being for most games, the consoles.

Planet Coaster 2, which is already VERY well optimised, will sing on that system, especially at higher resolutions.

This talk makes me wanna go buy some parts and re build a system.

I still have the absolute rock solid, tier 1 Superflower Leadex III 850w power supply with perhaps 7 years left on the warranty, so that is one part I would not need to buy if I decide to build a new PC2 system. Decisions, decisions. Probably no chance now with RAM prices though.

Well my hopes and dreams of playing Planet Coaster 2 this weekend we're smashed when I realised that it doesn't come onto PS Plus until the 16th. Not to worry, for the first time in years, I have three working days of the year left this week, then I am finished. So, plenty of Planet Coaster 2 time coming up. I am slightly excited as I have been off it for months.

Yeah, that's what I was going for really - A very capable system that'll be good for several years but with good bang for the buck. I also upgraded my 650 watt power supply to an 850 watt just to be safe with the more power hungry GPU. It might have got by with the 650 watt but I thought I may as well change it whilst I was rebuilding anyway. I don't actually game much but when I'm video editing it was struggling a bit at times but I did a quick test yesterday and it seems to have clearly improved. I upgraded from a Ryzen 5 2600 and a GTX 1060 so it was a worthwhile upgrade.

 

[DistortAMG]

Yeah, that's what I was going for really - A very capable system that'll be good for several years but with good bang for the buck. I also upgraded my 650 watt power supply to an 850 watt just to be safe with the more power hungry GPU. It might have got by with the 650 watt but I thought I may as well change it whilst I was rebuilding anyway. I don't actually game much but when I'm video editing it was struggling a bit at times but I did a quick test yesterday and it seems to have clearly improved. I upgraded from a Ryzen 5 2600 and a GTX 1060 so it was a worthwhile upgrade.

Oh yeah, that's quite a substantial upgrade in the performance department on both the GPU and CPU, you should see a big difference in almost everything you do on the system. For video editing and gaming alike. The 50 series including the 5070, is the first generation from Nvidia to support hardware level video encoding for AV1, which is a fancy new and very good video format for internet streaming, in some ways it is better than H265. Previously you would have to do the encoding on the CPU, making it run at 100%. Now the 5070 could encode it while the CPU sits there doing nothing, while simultaneously doing it orders of magnitude faster.

For me, that feature is ALMOST as a big of a draw to get to 50 series GPU as the performance in Planet Coaster 2 will be.

Apologies, I seem to have took this discussion off topic somewhat.

@matta very solid system too, Planet Coaster 2 will sing on that. You could in future, drop a new GPU in their for extra performance, an easy upgrade. As your CPU certainly has the headroom to handle a faster GPU, providing of course, PSU and case can handle it. But as quoted, the specs are lovely for Planet Coaster 2.